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Chinese Female League 2016/2017 (Oct 2016 - Apr 2017)

Teams: (sponsors are undefined temporarily)
Pool ITianjin
Bayi
Liaoning
Fujian
Sichuan
Henan
Pool IIJiangsu
Shanghai
Zhejiang
Beijing
Yunnan
Shandong
The rosters are all unofficial.The official rosters have been shown.The players of each team in each match:14 from 20 [15-16: 12 from 14 from 20, previous: 12 from 18]Sina Sports will broadcast all of the matches except homes without their own singals like Zhejiang and Yunnan.

There are many messages:
1. From Season 2016/2017, Chinese Volleyball League will make great effort for the professionalization and marketing.
2. Robinson is back. Whether Lowe, Wang Lin and Sun Wen-jing also join Team Beijing is unknown.
3. After Zhu Ting goes to Turkey, Team Henan is thinking what foreign players are willing to join it.

So a Second Assistant Coach of the (senior) NT is not a full-time job, is it?

In that case, how about Head Coach Lang Ping? Is she coaching any team of the league as well?

I always think the members of the coach team who are in charge of the Chinese national team do not have the 2nd assignment in league/club; those in the national levels are having the full-time jobs! It seems I'm wrong

Btw, I think the correct name spelling of the player from Tibetan ethnic in Yunnan team should be Zhaxi Lamu, it's a very common name of Tibetan ethnicity in China.

"The majority of men are not capable of thinking, but only of believing and are not accessible to reason but only to authority." -­ Arthur Schopenhauer

1. It is said Liu Meng-yao has joined Team Henan because she may not attend the match as the substitute OPP of Lowe and Zeng Chun-lei.
2. Megan Hodge-Easy may return China after Season 13/14. In theory, she is most likely to join Team Henan or Team Fujian.

Some new messages:
1. Sichuan's other foreigner may be Sonja Newcombe.
2. Two young players retired - Jin Yan (Zhejiang's setter) and Ju Wan-rong (Shanghai's OP)
3. Before National Game 2017, U21 players must choose one - senior or U21? For example, Sun Hai-ping chose senior. Rong-wan Qian-bai chose U21. Time will prove whether their choices are right.

I was wondering what teams are actual clubs and no longer belong to the Provincial Bureaus of Sports.

As far as I know 5 teams turned pro in the last years:
-Guangdong Hengda (2008-2015)
-Beijing since 2011
-Shanghai since 2014
-Fujian since 2014
-Jiangsu since 2014

While
-Tianjin
-Henan
-Bayi
-Liaoning
-Zhejiang
-Yunnan
-Shandong
-Sichuan
are still part of their Provincial Bureaus of Sports. They just have a sponsor added to their names, but don't belong to a company or aren't indipendent from the local governments.